Street Photography nominee

Emotional Metadata is a series of projects which are an intimate exploration in expressing the world not as it is seen, but as its deeply felt.

"Hiding emotions" means deliberately concealing or suppressing one's true feelings, often by presenting a different emotional state outwardly, which can be done through facial expressions, body language, or words, to avoid expressing vulnerability or discomfort in a given situation; it's also sometimes referred to as "masking."

I’m Simon Ellingworth a full time photography educator & one to one mentor, with over a decades experience creating and delivering education for The Royal Photographic Society, I specialise in street, black and white photograph, composition, gestalt theory available light portraiture.

I have 26 x International photography awards including 6 x ‘Mono Vision Awards’, 3 x ‘Monochrome Awards’, 3 x ‘Sony Awards’ and most recently, 1st place in the highly contested ‘2024 International Photography Awards’ in the professional category; selected from 14,000 entries from more than 100 countries.